Generation of Love by Timothy John and David Harris

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This song was written to lyrics that a friend of mine, John Pettie (stage name = Timothy John), wrote for me to put to music several years back. I wrote the music sometime around 1993 just after moving into an apartment on MacArthur Blvd in Washington, DC while I was waiting for Amy to return from a short trip to Syria.

Here's what TJ had to say about the song when he first heard it on my webpage on June 19th, 1998:

Dig your web page! You've inspired me to get mine 
up and running. I really like what you did with 
the Generations lyrics. You know, I think it was 
an article about another example of '80s yuppie 
excessism that prompted those lyrics. Liked the 
other two songs, too. I'll check back for more 
occasionally.

Dave Harris, Herndon, VA June 15, 1998

Lyrics: Generation of Love


When I was young, I watched the world spinning around my head.
Youth enflamed with the fires of truth, burning deepest red, 
a time for change, 
to rearrange 
the way things were.

On the TV screen, the war raged on, still the motives weren’t that clear.
And if blood and violence were answers there, they were problems here 
drawn in simple lines 
by simple minds 
in simple fear.

And in turbulent times, a generation was born, 
bound by beliefs that left a nation torn.
And they grew into the generation we call
the Generation of Love.

Where did they go, why did they leave?
If love was the answer, do they still believe?
What happened to those that tore down the walls 
society built and bridged the gap 
between you and me, what happened to 
the Generation of Love?

© 1993 Bargain Basement Tunes

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